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Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, until 1 March
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Drum Theatre, Plymouth, 6 to 22 March
The Traverse Theatre has brought us some of the United Kingdom's best new plays and this latest offering, written by Isabel Wright, promised much. It kicks off with the brilliant scenario that the mini society created by a drug trial, with its privations and restrictions, serves as a microcosm in which to explore concepts such as chance and fate, personal responsibility, and the morality of modern science.
The action centres around four men in their early 20s who enrol for a clinical trial of an unnamed drug. They are doing it purely for the money and apart from this have little in common with each...